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      The General Services Administration’s new online dashboard highlighting small business new entrants to the federal marketplace shows the vast majority of the new entrants in fiscal 2022 were non-socioeconomic small businesses and Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDBs).

      The GSA set up its new Supplier Base Dashboard as part of the Biden Administration’s efforts to attract and retain more small business federal contractors, especially SDBs (see story). The dashboard, available for public viewing, contains only fiscal 2022 data at this time as a baseline.

      In fiscal 2022, the dashboard shows there were 7,769 new small business entrants into the federal market. Of those, the 3,591 non-socioeconomic small firms comprised the largest share--46.2%.

      Close behind were the SDBs, totaling 45.5%, with 3,524 new entrants registered in SAM last year.

      The third largest share was from Women-Owned Small Businesses (WOSBs), which registered 1,237 new entrants last year, or 16% of the total.

      There also were 615 new entrants categorized as Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small firms and 148 new HUBZone firms. In addition to the small business new entrants there were 3,290 not-small new entrants.

More information:
GSA supplier dashboard: https://bit.ly/3SA8oGr

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